Best Drama movies on netflix that are award winners or nominees

Dolemite Is My Name(2019)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.





Seabiscuit(2003)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 79

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.



Closer(2004)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 76

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.



Beasts of No Nation(2015)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.



Loving(2016)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 86

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.



Tully(2018)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A mother of three hires a night nanny to help with her newborn.



tick, tick...BOOM!(2021)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 79

On the cusp of his 30th birthday, a promising young theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City.



Troy(2004)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.



Mudbound(2017)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 85

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.



St. Vincent(2014)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.



The Midnight Sky(2020)

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Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.



Pieces of a Woman(2020)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 77

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.



August: Osage County(2013)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.



Big Eyes(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.



The Ballad of Buster Scruggs(2018)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 83

An anthology film comprised of six stories, each dealing with a different aspect of life in the Old West.



The Lost Daughter(2021)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.



Notting Hill(1999)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.



Blonde(2022)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.



The Hand of God(2021)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 77

In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.




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